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Now the amendment is up trying to add back in the SALT deduction. I DO deduct my taxes but I’m on the edge, and I’d much rather just be able to take the standard deduction and make everything much simpler if they’ve got it balanced out a little bit so I’m glad to see it go personally.

Thune is doing a great job destroying this amendment. Also reminds everybody there is a deduction of up to 10k already in the bill, and that the only people that will take more than that will be wealthy people.

Seems like a good compromise to me, although I’d rather even the 10k wasn’t in there.

If you are on the edge you are going to get a tax increase. Much is made of them doubling the standard deduction, but they are also eliminating the personal exemption, in effect rolling it into the increased standard deduction, so the deduction in fact is NOT being doubled. It’s a sleight of hand, a three card monte game they are playing against us with our own money. The American middle class is being screwed, divided up and pitted against each other, at the same time the GOPe sets a “read my lips” trap for Pres Trump. The GOPe lie as much as the democrats do. It is disgusting to watch.

But they still don’t get us. If they think we will turn against Trump they don’t know us at all. This just hardens my anger and resolve against the Republicans.

Yes. The Republicans in congress own this, not Pres Trump. They think we are stupid and don’t understand who is doing this to us. We know. And we will remember. Slow burn, like an underground coal seam fire.

I was thinking about it a couple days ago…. he’s so vocal with everything, there isn’t a person ON THE PLANET that blames him for Obamacare not being repealed. We all know he did everything he could, and everybody blames the republicans. They’ve GOT to be smart enough to know he’s the most Teflon Don of all time.

It’s pretty shocking to me that we haven’t gotten any Senators kissing up to him yet to try and ride his coat tails. I mean if little Jouranalists like Katie Pavlich can figure it out (she was Never Trump, now acts like she’s a big fan) and if guys like Mark Levin can figure it out… you’d think that more senators could figure it out.

Anyone else having trouble getting straight news today. Even Sundance is hard to understand. Should I worry about Mueller? Is there going to be a tax bill pass? Drudge, Breitbart, Alex Jones are out on their own narrative. Foxnews is spreading this T-Rex being fired story. What is going on?

Mueller is blowing smoke. Flynn guilty plea saves his son and doesn’t implicate anyone else. Everything else is wishful thinking on liberals’ part. The tax bill will pass, but this is only one step toward getting it into law. Drama will continue, but at least it’s a step in the right direction. T-Rex isn’t going anywhere. Go to bed. Enjoy your weekend. President Trump has things well in hand.

1. President Trump says Rex isn’t fired. That’s the end of the story.
2. I’m watching the Tax cut be passed right now on cspan. Apparently the republicans have decided to make it happen.
3. This Mueller thing is all ‘process crimes’, and the President can pardon anybody including himself.

Don’t worry, President Trump has it. If they take him down, rest assured the entire game was lost long ago and nobody would have been able to save us. Leave it in the hands of God, President Trump will let us know if there’s anything we need to do.

It just really burns me that the FBI can lie that they have no records on the Lynch Clinton tarmac meeting, then forced to issue them by Judicial Watch, and Flynn is indicted for being set up by the Obama administration?

Another thing not mentioned on the “news” is that the two Border agents that were beaten and one killed, it is now believed by the sheriff and officials that a tractor trailer side swiped them while they were standing on the bridge, and that’s how they were so bloody and beaten. Right…..Probably planned to push depending on how the verdict with Kate Steinle went. Know we just have to keep these dacaca’s in here and all of their 9.000,000,000 chain migrated relatives cause they are really such good kids. Tired of the lies.

That means there go any Logan Act issues. It is right and good that an outgoing administration would approve and facilitate contacts between the president elect and foreign governments so that there would be a seamless passing of the baton.

But that is not what I find curious. Knowing that his conversations were Obama-approved, and also presumably knowing that we were recording every conversation Kislyak had with everyone, why in the world would Flynn lie about any of it? That is what puzzles me.
That is what jumps out. It doesn’t follow. It is a contradiction, and those don’t exist.

I think he lied about it, because he’s a little crooked and there’s other things they don’t know. Remember all the hub bub at the time was that he was working for the Ukraine or something at the time and hiding it from the transition team, or something like that. He’s got a lot of stuff up in the air, like a mini-Manafort.

This Cruz amendment sounds good for what little Cruz presented of it. I’m sure there’s some ‘bite you in the ass’ provision he hid in there, but it sounds like he wants a tax credit, like a tax free account, for people to send their kids to schools like private schools and catholic schools. I don’t have any problem with that.

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen someone be such a jackass on a stage that big. I mean I’ve seen people do some stupid stuff in public, but the way he got booed the hell off the stage and stood their fake waving and grinning because he had already rehearsed that’s how you walk off the stage was just pathetic. I actually felt sorry to see that blow up in his damn face so hard. CRINGEWORTHY to watch.

If Flynn has already made a deal with Mueller and plead guilty to lying to the FBI to the judge, then what more can Mueller get from him. Usually when you get a deal from the prosecutor, it means that’s the end. So far no new evidence that there was collusion has come out. What happened to Manafort and Flynn was what was already out months ago. Where is the beef?

There’s no beef… and to boot, they keep attacking our ‘least favorite’ MAGA team members. Does anybody really care if Manafort or Flynn go down? I know I don’t. If Trump, or his family, or Pence, or his family, or Steve Miller, or a few others went down i’d be pissed. The rest? Meh.

Tim Kaine literally looks like the Joker. I cannot believe, I cannot even fathom, I cannot and will not ever accept that Hillary Clinton was so stupid that she chose that moron, that drooling imbecile to be her Vice Presidential Candidate.